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Has anyone looked at the wikipedia entry on Alexander? I ran across it some months ago and spent several hours trying to correct some of the more egregious errors of fact and propaganda (and citing sources to try to forestall "corrections" that would restore the factual errors), but I just...

Kate:"Thanks for the post, Tim. It was interesting. With reference to Diodorus, do you - or anyone else here on the Forum - know if any of his actual work is available on-line? I want to read the bit where he talks about Alexander's funeral carriage and his tomb in Memphis. Can't remember off-h...

Kenny:"Alexander the Great Death of a God.I had a brief look throughh the third book and it seems to be a theory of murder with Ptolemy in the frame."That accusation comes courtesy of the Book of the Death of Alexander the Great, a manuscript from late Antiquity which implicates most of Al...

There's a lot of information on things of that nature in Athanaeus' Deipnosophists. Any decent academic library should have the seven-volume Loeb edition, or you can order individual volumes for $21.50 apiece directly from the Loeb site: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb/author.html#A(The ISBN numbers...

Those of you who are serious students of Alexander are undoubtably aware that when Waldemar Heckel moved from the University of Trent to his current job at the University of Calgary, the archives for the Ancient History Bulletin disappeared from the Web, and that it has been difficult to obtain repr...

Jona:"I can't resist the temptation, I need to shout: my book is there!"Congratulations!Regards,Thom Stark

Jona:"Thanks for your suggestions. They are really valuable."You're quite welcome. Sorry it took me so long to get around to it."I have already made some changes; about the possibility to read the text of the A.D. as referring to desertion AFTER the battle, I still have to think about...

Jona:First, I agree with Linda that the NY Review of Books is likely to reject any article that has already been published on the Web, so I urge you to think of this as a first draft, or, perhaps better yet, a setting-up exercise for the "real" article.Second, I want to strongly suggest th...

Jona: W. Huss, "Der R+ñtselh+ñfte Pharao Chababasch" in *Studi epigrafici e linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico* 11 (1994) 97-112.Otherwise, see Briant's *Histoire de l' Empire Perse For a wonder, the UNLV library has the 2002 English translation of Briant's book in its stacks.Thanks for...

Jona:On your page about Artaxerxes IV Arses at: http://www.livius.org/arl-arz/artaxerxes/artaxerxes_iv.htmlspeaking of upheavals following his accession, you say, "At least two satrapies revolted: Egypt, which had recently been conquered by Artaxerxes III, and Babylonia."Would you be so ki...

Begin Jona Lendering quote:I'm sorry for my late reply, but I was on a holiday. Palermo, I can recommend it.The name Arta+»-+-+ata is mentioned several times in the Astronomical Diaries. For example, the tablet of 333 BCE starts with: "Year three of Arta+»-+-+ata who is called king Darius"...

Karl "Agesilaus" Soundy noted:"http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_t40.html will take you to a document relating to his fifth year"Thanks. I've read that page before, but I misplaced my own bookmark.This and the reference that Linda Ann so kindly supplied are probably...

Begin Linda "Amyntoros" DeSantis quote:I was intrigued enough to check out a few other books. Bosworth also asserts on page 34 of Conquest and Empire that "This man, who is termed Artasata in the Babylonian documents, assumed the regnal name of his great-grandfather and began his rule...

nickw quote begins here:I have to quote my own website, gaugamela.com, for this:"Great King Darius III Codomannus ascended to the 'peacock' throne of the epic Persian empire in the summer of the year 336 BC. Codomannus is apparently the Greek variant of his original Persian name. He adopted the...

I note that Jona Lenderling claims Codomannus' name was Artašsata during his term as Satrap of Armenia (http://www.livius.org/arl-arz/armenia/armenia.html). I can find no citation to that effect in the Alexander canon (and, in 10.3 of his Epitome, the notoriously-unreliable Justin is the on...